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ˈdilligrout Obs. exc. Hist.
Also dile-, dille-, dilly-.
[Derivation unknown.
In the recent form of the word, the second element is app. taken as grout porridge of coarse meal; but this appears to be only a 17th c. mis-reading of the Anglo-French del girunt or geroun of unknown meaning. Cf. Testa de Neville (Recd.), Debet facere ferculum [quendam] quod vocatur [del] girunt.1304Lib. de Antiq. Leg. p. lxxix. Ferculum pro domino Rege quod vocatur mees de geroun. ]
A kind of pottage, of which a mess was offered to the Kings of England on their coronation-day, by the lord of the manor of Addington in Surrey, being the ‘service’ by which that manor was held.
(In Domesday the manor is held by Tezelin the King's cook.)
1662St. George's Day (1685) 10 Thomas Leigh Esquire was brought up to the Table with a Mess of Pottage called Dilegrout, by reason of his Tenure of the Manor of Addington. 1679Blount Anc. Tenures 1. 1727 Ceremonies Coronations 49 Then follows the Mess of Pottage, or Gruel, called Dillegrout. 1778Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v. Addington, The Ld. of this manor, in the R. of Henr. III. held it by this service, viz. to make his Majesty a mess of pottage in an earthen pot in the K's kitchen at his coronation, called Dilligrout. 1880Burton Reign Q. Anne I. i. 51. |